This is horrifying.
A WOMAN is raped every 10 minutes in South Africa, one is beaten up every six minutes – and seven women are murdered, on average, every day.
This harrowing picture of widespread brutality against women and young girls emerged from the police annual crime statistics released this week.
The police figures show that rape increased nationally by 4% between April 2004 and March 2005. Countrywide, 55 114 cases were reported. Sixty percent of the victims were adult women, and 40% children.

Great.
Women’s rights activists in Iraq say rising extremism is restricting their freedom, even as the country prepares to vote on a constitution that is touted as one of the Arab world’s most progressive regarding women.
“Women cannot walk freely out in the street,” said activist Ban Jamil, who directs the Rasafa Branch of Assyrian Women Union, a local non-governmental organisation in Baghdad.
“Women face lack of respect when they walk uncovered,” said Jamil, a Christian, who said women are insulted if they show too much skin or walk in public without wearing the Islamic veil, or hijab, to cover their hair.
She blamed “imported extremist doctrines, which were never experienced in the past” for the new restrictions.
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